Reflections on ‘Inanna Returns’ and Zecharia Sitchin
The book ‘Inanna Returns’ is not just about the history of family of Anu and the
colonization of planet Earth. Written in 1995, the book is primarily about
Inanna’s own journey to enlightenment and her attempt to help her beloved human
race by incarnating in Time & Space through her multidimensional selves. Like
all of us, Inanna had passed through the painful process of realizing that
getting everything she wanted wasn’t what she thought it would be. Defeated in
war by adversary members of her family, alone and miserable, Inanna sought
answers and turned to the eternal wisdom of a lady shaman.
Inanna’s enlightenment leads her to understand that the ‘darkside’ of her family
was their own creation. Essentially Inanna, as I know her, achieves Wisdom
through the realization that everything and everyone are but One, the Oneness.
In a polarity universe, negative reptilian energies exist in us all everywhere
and are a necessary part of creation, just as each atom is made up of positive
and negative charges of energy.
In 1995 when I wrote Inanna Returns, I could have never foreseen the endless
distortions and absurd claims made by all the conspiracy folk and the
fundamentalists regarding Inanna and the Reptilians. The darkside energies
reside along with the light in all of us. Projecting our inherent negative
tendencies such as greed, fear, and envy onto others will not make us the master
of our own nature.
In every moment we each make our own choice which path to follow. Throughout our
lives we are individually confronted with the decision either to follow the path
of temporal external power — or the path to Union with the Eternal, connected to
the God-within.
The way to conquer fear and defeat the evil reptilian-brain negative forces is
by merging our consciousness back into Union with the One. True and lasting
victory will come with self-mastery as we defeat our own personal demons through
Enlightenment in God-Consciousness and the liberating power of imperishable
Wisdom Knowledge. Real power is the consequence of Becoming the One.
***
In 1988-89 I read the Sitchin books. Many of my friends were also reading
Sitchin and most were complaining, struggling with the characters, and Sitchin's
style of laying out endless often seemingly unrelated facts. But for me it was
as if I was reading the story of my own family. I felt as if I personally knew
the family of Anu - Ninhursag, Enki, Enlil, and the others. I began explaining
their relationships to my friends who were a bit bewildered by my grok. I am not
a scholar.
Then the visions began. As I continued to read Sitchin, I felt as if I were in
Inanna's body watching the entire colonization, hybridization, radiation wars,
etc. process. The visions were quite intense, incredibly amazing - but I was
completely comfortable with the experience and never felt unbalanced or
frightened. In fact I felt great. I felt as she must feel - totally
self-confident, self-assured, and loved beyond anything I had ever felt as
female human Susan.
One day a good friend was visiting my home, and we were talking about Sitchin’s
work. I said to her, "Did you ever feel that you were Inanna?" She replied,
"Her? No way! If I identified with anyone it would be Ninhursag." At that moment
something strange occurred. The two wall lights on either side of the fireplace
mysteriously began to light up, growing stronger and then dimming again and
again. This happened in broad daylight - the lights were not turned on.
My friend said, "Do they do that?" Then we both laughed. But after that,
something shifted. I understood - and the visions of Inanna and her family
continued for me for about 6 months. A full color film was going on in the "Eye
of my Mind" and frankly I was enjoying the experience. This never interfered
with my everyday ordinary life or unbalanced me. I would be fine in the
supermarket or bank line while simultaneously watching Inanna’s family history.
However over time, slowly, I began to change. Inanna's confidence began to
permeate me and I noticed that my behavior to people became a bit imperious. I
felt that I had the right to 'direct' them — and worse, they liked it and
responded. This just wasn't me - and even though I was happy feeling Inanna’s
abundance of confidence, I felt I had to give it up. Where would these feelings
lead? So I shut the visions down, which wasn't so difficult and went on with my
life.
***
Who was Sitchin?
By 1995 my life had changed. During an intense period of meditating, Inanna
again appeared to me and asked me to write her story as I had 'seen' it in the
visions. Inanna must have known that her enemies and cousin Marduk, via the
conspiracy folk and the fundamentalists were going to vilify her and turn her
into a bloodthirsty reptilian shrew.
I had never considered myself to be a writer and wasn't at all sure of my
abilities. I struck a sort of deal with her. I told her that I didn't want to be
famous or become a 'channel' as I had seen what often happens to channels. I
only wanted my own enlightenment. Within 6 months the first book 'Inanna
Returns' had written itself. The experience for me was more like automatic
writing. Once again the visions returned as I wrote out what I saw in the ‘film’
in my mind.
Inanna (which she pronounces to me as In-Yanna) directed me to write the book in
very short sentences as if I were writing for a 12 year old. I never wrote
'Inanna Returns' to try to please anyone — and it never occurred to me that
Sitchin would ever even read it! But in 1996 a friend telephone me and said
that Sitchin wanted me to be a part of his presentation of writers who had been
influenced by his work. The lectures were to be published in a book entitled "Of
Heaven and Earth" by the Book Tree. The term used was 'proceedings' and I didn't
even know what that meant! The others were all scholars. I was the only
intuitive visionary.
The gathering was booked at a conference center in Denver, and I was included in
printed schedule announcements. However, Sitchin must not have read my book
closely. There were some differences in his story, which came from his reading
and translation of the cuneiform tablets - and mine, which came from my visions.
In my visions Inanna has a very important and deep relationship with Ninhursag.
In fact Inanna often told me that she felt more aligned with Ninhursag than she
did her own mother.
At some point Sitchin realized this discrepancy and telephoned me quite angry.
Others had noted him for being a bit of a grumpy scholar curmudgeon. He asked me
where I had gotten the idea that Inanna was closer to Ninhursag than to her own
mother. Totally upset and disheartened, I blurted the truth at least for me, "In
my visions."
His words still sting: "I am not interested in your channeling!"
Born in Azerbaijan, Sitchin had an Israeli eastern-european type accent and it
is impossible to convey the anger and derision in his voice. I was so upset. I
didn't know what to say or do. Being a practical gal, I said, "Tell me what you
want me to do." And he instructed me not to say anything at the event that would
contradict his scholarship in any way. That I could do. I altered my lecture,
out of respect for him.
Of course, I could not shake his knife-like words and was very hurt. I hadn't
meant to challenge him. I had never even thought he would read my book, and now
it seemed obvious that he had not - at least not thoroughly. Mulling all this
over in my heart and mind, I said to Inanna, "So who is Sitchin?" Her answer is
the reason I have explained everything thus far.
Inanna said in the most off-hand casual manner, as if it mattered not at all to
her, "Oh, you mean that old Babylonian astrologer." In ancient times, all
astrologers where also astronomers; there was no separation. From her reaction,
I understood that Sitchin had been an astrologer back in her era, and that she
had taken little notice of him as he would not have travelled in her elite
circles. I was naturally taken aback by her response, but it did explain why
Sitchin had access to his translation version of the cuneiform tablets and why
he refused to 'see' them in any other way. He had the past life memory of the
family stored in his DNA. I supposed it was his destiny to reveal his memories.
***
Nibiru
Now Sitchin was adamant about his sticking to his scholarship. He was a man who
wanted the acceptance of his peers. He claimed that many other cuneiform
scholars came forward and admitted privately to him that Sitchin was correct,
but said they would lose their jobs if they publicly agreed with him.
However strangely enough, as if to add insult to my injury, at that same
'proceedings' event in Denver, Sitchin admitted something highly unscholarly and
bizarre. I know because I was there sitting in the audience. He stated publicly
in his speech that the word Nirbiru had haunted him. What was Nibiru? He could
not find the answer. One night he had a dream and in the dream he was told that
Nibiru was a planet!
Sitting in the audience, perhaps I was the only one who was completely
astonished to hear Sitchin admit that he had 'channeled' the meaning of the word
Nibiru in a dream! The blatant fact that his channeling was fine - while mine
was to be obliterated was not lost on me. I stayed clear of Sitchin after that.
Until years later I ran into him in the Metropolitan Museum NYC in the Assyrian
room. After I gave up on my tiny publishing business, I had moved back to NYC,
my adult home for 20+ years. I said hello to Sitchin and he was apparently
delighted to see me and invited me to come to a presentation he was giving at
the museum in Philadelphia. He said the cuneiform department was honoring him
and it would be wonderful if I could attend and have the opportunity to see all
the artifacts in that museum.
I did end up going. Sitchin was very friendly to me. I always felt that he had a
bit of a crush on Inanna. She was quite something!
***
Sitchin sold millions of books and was translated into 20+ languages. Whatever
mistakes he may have made, he struck a chord in millions of people around the
planet. I was not the only one who had visions of the colonization of planet
earth while reading Sitchin's books. I met many others who had similar
experiences when I travelled and lectured. Once in Santa Fe, I was telling the
story of the Flood and how Inanna was heartbroken seeing her priestesses drown.
When I looked up, half the women in the audience were in tears. They had loved
her.
Like so many gifted men, Sitchin was an egotist. He wanted recognition, he
needed to sell his books in order to live (in NYC), and he was human with all
that goes along with that. But he was not a bad man. He was not a 'tool' of the
Reptilian mind control. He was a scholar. I believe that in his last years he
reverted to his childhood faith, as many people do.
I often reflect on how strange it is that the one moment Sitchin chose to trust
his own intuition, his dream, and define Nibiru as a planet turned into the
biggest 'Meme' of his entire work. I believe he was horrified to see what people
have made of this. Even today if you google Nibiru, you get over 10 million
links! I still respect him. Whatever mistakes he made, Sitchin awakened our
memory to the fact that planet Earth is and was merely yet another colony in a
universe filled with 300 billion galaxies.
***
Another aspect of the accuracy of Sitchin's translations is very subtle.
For the last 4+ years I have been teaching myself Sanskrit. I am still a
beginner, but from my research I do clearly understand that the Sanskrit of the
Rig Veda is not the Sanskrit of the later texts, for example the Mahabharata
(which contains the Bhagavad Gita), the Upanishads, and others. The variances in
translations of the Rig Veda verses are stunning! I honestly don't feel that
anyone has as yet been able to accurately translate the Rig.
The Cycles of Time play a big part in understanding this.
http://www.metaphysicalmusing.com/articles/time.htm
The Mahabharata is said to have taken place around 3100 BC, at the end of the
Dvapara Yuga. For me this epic offers a window back into time and gives us a
glimpse of what the world might have been before the Kali Yuga. An interesting
episode in the Vana Parva, or the Book of the Forest, reveals a tantalizing clue
concerning the variations in material manifestations that occur as our
consciousness moves through Time from Yuga to Yuga.
One of the Pandava brothers, big strong Bhima, meets the great monkey-hero
Hanuman from the days of the other great Sanskrit epic, The Ramayana. The
Ramayana takes place in the Yuga previous to the Dvapara, the Treta Yuga. In the
Ramayana, the hero Rama, an incarnation of the deity Vishnu, engages an entire
army of monkey-men (shades of Planet of the Apes) to fight off Ravana, the
Rakshasa demon king who has abducted Rama’s precious and pure wife Sita. The
high-souled monkey chief Hanuman becomes the greatest devotee and friend to
Rama.
Bhima is deeply honored to meet the heroic Hanuman. ‘None is more fortunate than
me ...’ (translation M.N. Dutt). He asks Hanuman to reveal the form he assumed
long ago when he leapt across the ocean to find the lovely bereft kidnapped
Sita, who was bravely fighting off the demon king Ravana’s repulsive advances.
Hanuman smiles at Bhima and explains to him that because the Treta Yuga has
passed, no one can see him as he was in that time. Hanuman no longer possesses
that form in this moment of their meeting, a time of deterioration and
diminution.
Everything in the world is affected by the passage of Time and as the
frequencies change, so does the ‘strength, size, and capacity’ (van Buitenen -
3.148.5) of everything - including the natural world, the rivers, trees, and
mountains. The world and we humans are smaller in every respect, consciousness,
substance, integrity, and physical size. ‘The Siddhas, the celestials (gods),
the great Rishis (seers), all conform to Time, as it comes to be in the
different Yugas’ (M.N.Dutt - Vol.2, Ch.149). Even the great hero Hanuman is
susceptible to the immutable alteration in the frequencies of Time as they
affect consciousness and thus the visible world.
Later Hanuman relents and does show Bhima his ability to assume ‘a gigantic
body’ the size of a mountain. The monkey-hero ‘pervaded space’ (van Buitenen) It
is because Bhima is sinless that he can see Hanuman’s expanded form and although
Hanuman says he could grow even larger, he warns Bhima that he can only stand to
see this much.
***
So from this we might understand that we have in fact lost the ability to
understand the ancient texts. This certainly seems a real possibility in the
case of the Rig Veda. I find definitions of Sanskrit words that point to ancient
astronauts, while other translators stick to accepted religious dogma.
http://www.metaphysicalmusing.com/articles/rigveda2012/rigveda011.htm
I would imagine that if I lived in India, I would be a bit reticent about my
translations. More than one researcher has suggested that the truth about the
Indus civilization is being hindered intentionally - much like Egypt.
http://hindufocus.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-shameful-politics-of-the-saraswati-river/
Again we see they don't want us to know that we are a genetic experiment on one
small lovely colonized planet in a universe of 300 billion galaxies.
The point here is that because of Sitchin's past life memory as an
astrologer/astronomer in ancient Babylon during the reign of the family of Anu,
perhaps he did have some real link to the meaning of the words in the cuneiform
tablets. Maybe he had the 'ears to hear and the eyes to see'! While the current
scholars who are ripping him, do not.
Sitchin’s Wiki bio says that he
was born in the then
Azerbaijan SSR
of the
Soviet Union,
but was raised in
Mandatory Palestine.
He received a degree in economics from the University of London, and was an
editor and journalist in
Israel,
before moving to
New York
in 1952. While working as an executive for a shipping company, he taught himself
Sumerian cuneiform
and visited several archaeological sites. Thus he was self-taught, at least in
the Sumerian cuneiform.
I cannot know this for certain, especially about the cuneiform tablets, Sumerian
and Akkadian. I only know what I have experienced in my journey into the Rig
Veda Sanskrit. And often while struggling to unlock a verse, I feel I am being
given meanings, that an understanding of a verse is being revealed to me. And as
I have suggested, it may be that in our present bodily form we are incapable of
understanding these ancient writings.
Zecharia Sitchin 1920-2010
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